The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a progress report this week on its implementation of Project BioShield, a program that gives the department authorities to support, facilitate, ...
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has issued five awards totaling $4 million to fund the development of products that ...
Project BioShield was the federal government's $5.6 billion answer to the anthrax scare of 2001. But funds have been slowly distributed, and an anthrax treatment is bogged down in a rivalry between ...
Shionogi Receives Contract with U.S. Government Through BARDA's Project BioShield to Enhance National Preparedness for Drug-Resistant Bacterial Threats Program Includes Establishing Pharmaceutical ...
The anthrax letters that contaminated the U.S. Postal Office system, and the traces of ricin found in congressional buildings had added to the mass hysteria that began on that dark day in September.
HHS on Thursday announced that it has awarded the first contract under Project Bioshield to California-based VaxGen, giving the company $877 million to manufacture 75 million doses of a newly ...
WASHINGTON, DC (April 4, 2003): Biotechnology companies are well suited to address the modest commercial opportunities offered by creating safer, more effective and less costly vaccines for biodefense ...
SAN DIEGO - When President Bush signed Project BioShield into law in July, he said he was immediately making $5.6 billion available to counter such anticipated threats as smallpox genetically ...